After more than three hours of testimony from a standing-room crowd, the Ukiah Planning Commission voted 4-1 on Aug. 26 to recommend that the City Council deny the pre-zoning that underpins the "Ukiah 2026 Reorganization."
A 60-year-old Redwood Valley woman, who was found trespassing on one of her neighbor's properties, tried to fight subsequent DUI charges by raising a necessity defense — saying she fled from the scene to escape immediate harm.
A town hall on the low-contrast Willits' police cars will be held at the Little Lake Grange on Thursday, August 27, at 7 .p.m.
The Fort Bragg City Council moved nine zoning ordinances through first reading on Aug. 24, a rewrite that reaches into both residential neighborhoods and the city's commercial districts.
Fort Bragg's new prohousing designation could make the city more competitive for state and federal funds for housing.
A coastal zoning code overhaul, a $35 million wastewater infrastructure plan, and opposition to offshore oil drilling filled a meeting that ran until 9 p.m.
Willits residents Robin Leler and Sherrie Ebyam are candidates in an as-yet-uncontested election for the Willits City Council.
The two-page letter was written to end a lawsuit. But its most important passage concerns the contaminated water body at the center of the town's fight over its coastline, and what the city told the company it would, and would not, ask the state to do about it.
A judge clears the way for the election to proceed without modifications to the ballot, a Potter Valley school addresses a water-treatment issue, and a Fort Bragg health care clinic buys a pharmacy.
